DAILY GRAPHIC

The Graphic reports: "Another case of adulterated kerosene...Five burnt to death". In its main front page story the Graphic says five members of a Kumasi household, including two children, aged six and four years, have died from severe burns they sustained following the explosion of an adulterated kerosene from a stove. The kerosene was said to have been adulterated with thinner. The paper says the only survivor is six-year-old Sampson Kwaku, who is said to be responding to treatment at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi. The Graphic named the deceased as Kofi Gyamfi, 22, block-maker, Abena Ampong and her four-year-old son, Nana Boakye and Madam Adwoa Kwayie and her six-year-old daughter, Maame Adwoa. Detective Corporal James Azure of the Suame Police Station disclosed this to the Graphic yesterday. GRI

In another front page story the Graphic reports that the Greater Accra Regional Education Office has ordered district directors in the rwegion to suspend salaries of 145 teachers who have failed to respond to its directive on their transfer to other schools. The affected teachers are among 328 excess teachers who are being redeployed to other schools as part of the staff rationalisation exercise being undertaken by the Ghana Education Service (GES). Mr Lawrence Clocuh, The Regional Director of Education said this in an interview yesterday that letters have been despatched to the district directors to have the salaries of the teachers suspended for the month of October. He said 183 teachers affected by the transfer have collected their transfer letters. GRI

"Six females enter Tarkwa School of Mines", is the headline of a back page story in the Graphic which says six females students have been admitted to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) School of MInes at Tarkwa. The Graphic says two of them are pursuing BSc degrees in mining engineering, two others are studying for diploma in mineral engineering (Mineral Technology), one is taking diploma in geological engineering while the sixth is is studying for diploma in mines surveying. The Principal of the school, Dr John Kofi Borsah, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview at Tarkwa that the students are among 246 freshmen admitteed by the school to pursue studies in mining-related programmes in the 1997/98 academic year. GRI